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Assessing the prospects and commercial viabilities of small-scale CHP schemes

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  • Babus'Haq, R. F.
  • Probert, S. D.
  • O'Callaghan, P. W.

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Combined heat and power (CHP) is a technique which can provide both electricity and heat for industrial, commercial and/or residential buildings from a single source. Its implementation can make a significant contribution to reducing the fuel needs of the UK, offering as it does the prospects of overall energy-use efficiencies exceeding 80%. The present investigation deals with the application of small-scale CHP schemes to building services for providing winter heating and summer cooling; the latter being achieved using absorption heat-pumps. The assessments of the economic viabilities of such electricity-exporting schemes, and the predictions of the sizes of the total-energy plants necessary, involve tedious and prolonged numerical exercises. In order to be able to handle this type of problem in a routine and rapid manner, a comprehensive software package (available from the authors) has been compiled for use with a BBC desk-top computer. Building-services engineers can utilize this package to simulate theoretically the behaviours of CHP systems, in order to satisfy various scenarios concerning hourly energy-loading patterns for buildings for any day of the year, before having to make decisions as to whether or not to invest substantial amounts of money in installing a real plant.

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  • Babus'Haq, R. F. & Probert, S. D. & O'Callaghan, P. W., 1988. "Assessing the prospects and commercial viabilities of small-scale CHP schemes," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 19-30.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:31:y:1988:i:1:p:19-30
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    1. Salta, Myrsine & Polatidis, Heracles & Haralambopoulos, Dias, 2011. "Industrial combined heat and power (CHP) planning: Development of a methodology and application in Greece," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(5), pages 1519-1531, May.
    2. Maghanki, Maryam Mohammadi & Ghobadian, Barat & Najafi, Gholamhassan & Galogah, Reza Janzadeh, 2013. "Micro combined heat and power (MCHP) technologies and applications," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 28(C), pages 510-524.
    3. Barbieri, Enrico Saverio & Spina, Pier Ruggero & Venturini, Mauro, 2012. "Analysis of innovative micro-CHP systems to meet household energy demands," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 723-733.

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